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Best Rat Poems

Below are the all-time best Rat poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of rat poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Hope, a Little Remained
Hope, A Little Remained

She walked the creaking floors of the rat-infested room,
trying to remember what tragedy had sent her to this shabby place.
Her heart felt...

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Categories: rat, anxiety, dark, emotions, fate,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Who Knows If Magic Exists
Who knows if magic exists,
if dreams come true
and whether miracles take place
(all of these things we thought we knew)

... buried in our haste
to dig childhood's...

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Categories: rat, appreciation, beauty, family, friendship,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member A Tale of Billy the Kid
William Bonny AKA Billy The Kid
A Tale Of Billy The Kid
By Robert Gorelick

“Quien esta?”

Bang!  It’s over, 
you’re a legend now, 
Billy.

Born in Hell’s Kitchen...

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Categories: rat, character, death,
Form: Metrical Tale
Premium Member How Do You Like Them Apples
Coming from Texas, I knew he’d be loud
And soon I discovered that two is a crowd
Is that the privy? he asked of my house
When he...

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Categories: rat, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Cats Cats Cats
on...                        ...

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Categories: rat, pets,
Form: Concrete



Premium Member Where Freedom Finds the Fire
You'll find it in the crimson eyes
of a throwaway photo somehow frozen in time.
When the past painted us like demons
with secret fury.
And you'll find it...

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Categories: rat, allegory, analogy, beauty, deep,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member It's a Mad Hatter's World
A spinning world globe just set off the center of its axis pole,
Welcome to the mad-mad Hatter’s topsy-turvy upside down
Wonderland, just another inside out hole...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rat, adventure, character, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Threadbare Clouds
Gray smeared sky like a quilt of rags
Winos sip rot gut from brown paper bags
Threadbare cloud crotch splits up the side
Rain pours down, you got...

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Categories: rat, angst, beautiful, change, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Collateral Damage
Mara- Collateral damage

Hi, my name is Mara, I'm six years old, I have brown hair and brown eyes. People say I'm pretty like my mom,...

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Categories: rat, character, courage, freedom, girl,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Hard of Hearing
I know that I’m not perfect, just go and ask me wife.
At times she’s kind of said - I’m the bane of her life,
but on...

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Categories: rat, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Here In My Heart
These days you're with me, everywhere I go
I know you're there, although you never speak
Just yesterday we waded Dogwood Creek
It picked me up when I...

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Categories: rat, how i feel,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Out In the Desert Late At Night
Out in the desert, late at night
The stars and moon are shining bright
The coyotes sing,
While crickets keep beat 
Cool night's joy, replaces heat
The owl sets...

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Categories: rat, 6th grade, motivation, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Teacher's Refining Fire
You were my least liked teacher,
                   ...

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Categories: rat, appreciation, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rum N Raisin 4 - Homer Lone
Rum was feeling playful so he went to find a mouse
He looked in every nook and cranny right throughout the house
But all the mice were...

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Categories: rat, animal, cat,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Great Horned Owl
In the daylight hours, I spend  my time
So high on a perch, in a lofty pine
Where I fluff and comb my pretty plumes
And wait...

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Categories: rat, bird, flying, nature,
Form: Personification

Book: Shattered Sighs